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Enforcement of lèse-majesté never went away but now it’s been weaponised to include criticism of the military. https://www.yahoo.com/news/american-academic-arr
by digianarchist 1y ago
Enforcement of lèse-majesté never went away but now it’s been weaponised to include criticism of the military.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/american-academic-arrested-thailand-charged-103226181.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/american-academic-arrested-thaila...
- contrarian1234 1y agoyour linked article says nothing about criticizing the military
- pc86 1y agoIt says the complaint was submitted by the army, but maybe that's who usually submits the complaints? It is certainly lacking detail about what the actual content of the post was, which I guess shouldn't be surprising coming from Yahoo news.
- digianarchist 1y agoMy bad. There are more details in the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/08/american-academic-paul-chambers-thailand-charged-insulting-monarchy https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/08/american-acade...